Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of the year Ford had almost no rapport with the team," one player said. He added, "This lack of communication with the coach, which has since been cleared up, meant that in the middle of the season we were still experimenting with positions and a style of play...
...arrival of Gerald Ford at a weekend party for journalists in Washington set off more than the usual hubbub. The President, with a bravely smiling Betty Ford at his side, was all tricked out like a cocktail cowboy in a snazzy Western-style shirt suit of blue-gray flannel decorated with white saddle stitching. For some guests, Jerry Ford's new garb, a gift from friends, brought to mind his past uncertain flights of fashion. Greeting Japan's Emperor Hirohito last year on a grand tour of Asia, for example, the President was dressed in a cutaway-with...
...Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general Rinaldo and the Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks and other trappings of the Italian Baroque operatic style, then the rage in London. During the "Bird Song" of Almirena, Rinaldo's true beloved, a flock of sparrows was let loose. The waspish essayist Joseph Addison had fun with that in The Spectator. "There have been so many flights of them let loose that it is feared...
Spunky Air. First Monday in October is intellectual and ideological Pablum seasoned with a few smart Broadway-style gags. What may one say of the two actors in whose presence count less Americans can stir up memories of their own youth? Douglas, 74, is a sly fox of an actor with great skill, and he makes Justice Snow a personable charmer. Jean Arthur, 70, still has the raspy little girl's voice that people remember from 1930s movies and a spunky air of perennial optimism. But the stage has never been her home...
...another tale, a white-haired bishop oversees the construction of a new cathedral. In the process an old cemetery is bulldozed and bones are unearthed and reburied. The final sacrilege is worse: the arch has no keystone-two rocks with a crack between, it seems, constitute the new style...